Looking Ahead to Daytona

[Allen]

Also the 89 and 49 have cars but are at the track and no one at the shop to work on them.

[1RaceFan]

Heard today that the 05 will have one, they left 2 guys at the shop this week to work on it and they will race since they have a sponsor.  The 26 has all the parts for a COT, they just don't have one put together.  As of right now, they will not be there.  The 24 has 1 car but they are only going to run a couple of practice laps to make sure nothing falls off and will race but not race-they'll be out there but won't draft and will try to stay away from everyone. 

[Lada Autosport]

Word on the street is 32 total entries which is up from the 18 as of Monday. Nascar is begging for cars and backups to roll so expect tires to be paid for and entry fees waived etc.

The 61 car does have a COT very very old and I don't know if they ever got beyond just a chassis.

Should be a pitiful showing at Daytona, YAY the future!!!

[Justin02]

From people I have talked to the #52 Jimmy Means' team has a COT...however, they are not planning on going to Daytona but plan to start at Michigan in August. 

[lefflerfan]

What an excellent idea Nascar! I remember reading something around a year ago where Braun said the COT would be too expensive and he figured if he was going to spend the money on a COT, might as well do it in Cup. His mind has probably changed since then, but still it's scary to think what will happen when this plan goes through for good.

[Rowdy]

What an excellent idea Nascar! I remember reading something around a year ago where Braun said the COT would be too expensive and he figured if he was going to spend the money on a COT, might as well do it in Cup. His mind has probably changed since then, but still it's scary to think what will happen when this plan goes through for good.

Considering that the Cup car will be about the same as the Nationwide car come next year (Wasn't the Nationwide COT supposed to cirkoolaidvent this so the Buschwhackers wouldn't come prancing shouting ''TRACK TIIIIIIIIIME!''?), the Nationwide CoT is either the Savior of the Nationwide Series or its death knell.

I still don't quite know what to think. Okay, so a lot of privateer teams are going to be pruned, but from the sounds of it, there are a fair amount of new, prospective owners who are waiting for the car to be fully implemented to make an entrance into the series. Then again, when the Cup CoT was implemented, by the end of 2008, racing costs had skyrocketed, more sponsors bailed than you can count on your fingers (Okay, so the economy failing was the main cause of this, but the CoT certainly didn't help), and the racing was horrible. I'd expect more of the same. The excess of the Series are probably the only ones who benefit from this.

[Kevin Lordbonte]

So I wonder where Keith Dusenburg and Leik Motorsports or Get Green Racing (I believe that's the name) that Todd Bodine is supposed to be driving for are at? Both said they were going to run this season and neither have showed thus far. I figured they might pop up for the COT races.

[Giants02122]

Never know, JR did test the #5 at Daytona, could they possibly coax someone to sponsor a fourth JRM entry at Daytona? Heck at this rate, Roush better get an extra car ready and call up a sponsor and get Kenseth and the #17 team at the ready to run at Daytona. NASCAR will have 43 cars there, and I'm sure there's going to be an interesting entry list there.

[Bhester]

I'd rather have 32 good cars than 43 cars where 11 of them are just filler.

[MichaelCMTX]

the Nationwide CoT is either the Savior of the Nationwide Series or its death knell.

I expect that just like in Cup, once the well-funded teams move on to v2.0 and v3.0 the v1.0 cars will end up in less well-funded hands, and will run like they're a generation past their prime.  Wasn't this basically how the 64 and 36 Cup teams (among others) came to be?

Sad thing it that I see just an ever growing gap between the haves and have-nots.  Nlo help that sponsors will prefer to pay for 2 or 3 races on a Roush or Gibbs Cupwhacker car when nearly that much money could get an entire season at, say, RWR or JDM.

[1RaceFan]

I would rather have 32 teams that have made the effort to put a car together race than to have a bunch of Cup team bring cars at NASCAR's request. to fill the field and have a regular team go home because they aren't fast enough.

[FrontRowMotorsportsFan]

I would rather have 32 teams that have made the effort to put a car together race than to have a bunch of Cup team bring cars at NASCAR's request. to fill the field and have a regular team go home because they aren't fast enough.

Agreed, maybe 32 cars (even though when they're 43 car fields, there's a ton of S+P's), isn't all that bad, it sucks to see some of those teams that actually run the full races miss, but 32 cars actually would be a good thing if you ask me if they're all competitive fielded cars.

[GotFaith?]

It's been reflected in the hypothetical entry list already, but Jennifer Jo Cobb and Baker-Curb have formed a partnership for 4 of the 5 COT races, beginning with Daytona. Jen will drive the car her team built, but it will carry the #27, locking her into the races. Jen will drive her own #13 Fusion in the other races on her schedule.

[Drew]

Wonder if NASCAR would bend their team limit rule since they don't have enough cars right now  Roush would show up with eight teams probably.

[Giants02122]

Wonder if NASCAR would bend their team limit rule since they don't have enough cars right now  Roush would show up with eight teams probably.

Didn't think there was a limit on the Nationwide or Trucks. Could be wrong though.